With live disputes in a ring around China—from the East China Sea to Taiwan to the South China Sea to the Himalayas— the kindling for a conflagration has been collected, and the “Asian Peace” since 1979 looks fragile. [...] As US-China relations worsened, and India sought improved ties with the US, and made it clear in practice that India’s nuclear weapons programme represented no threat to the US and was focused exclusively on China and Pakistan, the US came to terms with India’s nuclear programme in the 2008 civil nuclear agreement. [...] The choice is ours, despite all the hype about auton- omy and AI; humans are in the driving seat and use technology for war, to make money, and to control and monitor others. [...] 14 SHIVSHANKAR MENON Faced with this prospect of accelerating economic fragmentation and technological change, what should we in India do? My answer: engage more with the world economi- cally; join the RCEP or find alternatives that serve the same purpose of tapping into the most dynamic parts of the world economy which are in Asia; and use the trend towards regionalism to our advantage in our imm. [...] He has served in the mission to the IAEA in Vienna and in the Department of Atomic Energy in Mumbai.
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Table of Contents
- Thinking About Indias Future 2
- The author would like to thank Anahad Kaur for her excellent research assistance and support in the production of this Flagship Paper. 3
- CONTENTS 4
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 5
- ABSTRACT 6
- THINGS TO WATCH 7
- OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD 8
- THE USA 9
- CHINA-USA 10
- CHINAS TRAJECTORY 11
- EURASIA 12
- WORLD ECONOMY 12
- WORLD ORDER 14
- SCENARIOS 15
- BUSINESS AS USUAL 15
- DOOMSDAY SCENARIOS 15
- OPTIMIST SCENARIOS 15
- INDIAS PATH 16
- REFERENCES 17
- 6 Foreign Policy. httpsforeignpolicy.com20240206how-policy- makers-should-handle-a-fragmenting-world 17
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR 18
